Quotes about art

"The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones."

Howe, Nathaniel on art
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"What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

Jefferson, Thomas on art
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"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that."

Keats, John on art   

"The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering."

Kierkegaard, Søren on art   

"Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."

Latimer, Bishop Hugh on art   

"It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one."

Mann, Horace on art   

"The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower."

Nightingale, Florence on art   

"There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations."

Pearse, Patrick Henry on art   

"I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows."

Peri, Gabriel on art   

"Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief."

Schnitzler, Arthur on art   

"Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins."

Twain, Mark on art   

"No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true."

Wilde, Oscar on art
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"If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch."

Anderson, Bill on art   

"No manager ever won no ballgames."

Anderson, Sparky on art   

"It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it."

Lombardi, Vince on art   

"I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet."

London, Jack on art   

"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."

Scott, Sir Walter on art   

"The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone."

Smith, Dean on art   

"The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?"

Unknown, Source on art   

"Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling."

Byron, Lord on art   

"Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly."

Erasmus, Desiderius on art   

"On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet."

Gordon, George on art   

"At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other."

Landers, Ann on art   

"Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host."

Parker, Dorothy on art   

"Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)"

Parker, Dorothy on art   

"Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall."

Richter, Jean Paul on art   

"I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers."

Whitman, Walt on art   

"By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved."

Updike, John on art   

"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea."

Ciardi, John on art   

"Art is science made clear."

Cocteau, Jean on art
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"One must be a living man and a posthumous artist."

Cocteau, Jean on art   

"The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up."

Connolly, Cyril on art
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"The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure."

Connolly, Cyril on art   

"An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation."

Conrad, Joseph on art   

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"Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line."

Conrad, Joseph on art   

"Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs."

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders on art   

"Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil."

Dahlberg, Edward on art   

"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."

Dali, Salvador on art   

"It is either easy or impossible."

Dali, Salvador on art
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"This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art."

Dali, Salvador on art